#investing

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#any #beautiful #buy #dollars #i

So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#about #away #become #concerned #contribute

Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#because #deal #deliver #done #everything

Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#skepticism

We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards. ↗

— John Baldacci

#development #economic #economic development #embrace #homeland

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#disadvantage #entering #funds #give #investing

Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do. ↗

— Robert Gibbs

#been #collapse #companies #depression #ensuring

It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#investing #age

I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media. ↗

— Karl Rove

#communications #conservatives #creation #either #enterprise

We all have the ability to be successful. But the truth about success is that it starts from within you. It starts by changing your internal thoughts about how you feel. Once you do that, the world is in your hands. You literally have the ability to have anything you want as long as your internal thoughts truly reflect what you want in your life and what you believe you can achieve. ↗

— Monica Breckenridge

#short-sale-investing #change